Opportunists

The Opportunists were a liberal faction of French politics that existed under the Third French Republic. Formally known as the Moderate Republicans, the "Opportunists" sat on the left side of the parliament with the Radical Republicans in opposition to the Legitimists, Orleanists, and Bonapartists. The Opportunists were more moderate than the radicals, and they became unpopular after they were blamed for the fall of the Third Republic in 1940. The Opportunists would morph into the National Center of Independents and Peasants in 1949.